a ground offensive against gaza could be drawing close as these are already as heavy weapons and drafts of thousands of additional troops while hamas since its rockets on television. shows and wavering support for israel's operation blaming hamas for the spike in violence but many people in the streets of new york in washington disagree. and also people in england and wales avoid to choose their own police commissioners for the first time around late on sunday during a walk load could lead to officers going on strike. news

for russia and around the world this is the with me our thanks for joining us israel's calling up thousands of additional troops and moving heavy weapons towards gaza stoking fears of a ground assault it's also pushing forward with intense air raids and naval attacks as hamas was to retaliate and continue rocket strikes targeting tel aviv and its latest a time one thousand palestinians and three israelis have reportedly been killed since israel launched an offensive on wednesday. and reports now from tel aviv. there's been a huge intensification of bombing recently and in the past few hours over over gaza eighty five missile strikes of various air strikes from drones and israeli aircraft across gaza in the park in a just a forty five minute period and that is just comes at the end of a continued aerial assault and we also know that thirty thousand reservists israeli

reservists have been called up and we've seen numerous reports of tanks and troops being moved south towards the border with gaza we also have heard a number of statements by israeli defense folks people and generals saying that they are prepared to do all that is necessary to defend israel's security and i think the israeli prime minister and others and they say that they don't rule out a ground offensive if you cast our minds back to two thousand and eight nine the new year their operation cast lead was the last time things became this intense around gaza israel launched a full scale ground offensive then which was heavily criticized around the world including a u.n. investigation for the for the high numbers of civilian casualties that resulted almost one and a half thousand civilians died in gaza as that ground offensive continued

and there are fears that that may happen as well which is garnering the same kind of nervous international response please try and tone this down please try and deescalate this was the message from russia from france's president alone and also egypt egypt the only other country with a direct connection a physical connection to god sir that's the rough for crossing we heard yesterday that egypt wants to send it sir prime minister and delegate. to gaza as a message of solidarity with the gazan people and egypt has also been strained numerous in its condemnation of israeli airstrikes possibility of any further escalation. he's also staying in contact with documentary filmmaker harry fear who is currently working in concert and in his latest on data says it's getting harder to stay safe the situation in gaza now is very severe in the green zone where

international space it is currently not safe and we're hearing it nearby mabel showing within five minutes drive the opposition so even the safest areas of gaza i'm not particularly safe tonight we've actually moved from our building to a hotel just increased security the best that we can say things are great in gaza. more than one hundred thirty palestinians have been injured we went to a hospital and saw the injured children as a result of what's happened in the last two days we went through a strike actually three hour strike sites within hours of him being targeted. at the scene there are still in debris everywhere holds in the ground. and no one because it's too dangerous to go back to straight sites because israel has a historical record of retargeting them but we've heard anecdotal evidence that israel is using suspicious weapons we're seeing a lot of. we're seeing hearing reports of strange. smells.

chief hospital the largest hospital in gaza in central gaza city within two minutes walk and strike hit a building and we could see the smoke rising up part of the israeli tanks amassing on the border with gaza those being photographic evidence of the what we can only but it soon is a precursor to a ground invasion as israel has promised to exact on the strip. in the next in the next day also. despite a number of civilian deaths including those of children israel's foreign minister a has held the precision of the israeli operation and my colleague robbery sushi has been speaking to that spokesperson paul he's shown. this is been so far one of the most surgical pinpoint military operations in modern military history i think again you will see that the civilian to militant casualty ratio will show up in israel to have unfortunately killed civilians but fall fewer then than any other

comparable military. action but you have a pin point operation you call this one of the most precise and exact and pinpoint military operations that israel's known in recent history and that can allow for what you might consider collateral damage the killing of children when you when you presented and you talk about civilians it's always said as all the three israelis who were killed but all of the palestinians who were killed seven are confirmed militants two to use the likelihood now you are you. possibly you're just giving rise to anti israeli attitudes among palestinians let's have a listen to this quickly is the hamas leader that we spoke to just a bit earlier please stand by. the assassination of this great leader. clearly confirms that we are still in the heart of resistance with the israeli enemy the zionist enemy knows nothing but the language of killing and blood our battle with the enemy is an open bottle god willing this battle will end with palestine and jerusalem liberated they should wait for action not words. we've seen their actions

a situation which most often anywhere in the world could accept what would you do were just one missile to land in central moscow where we talk about our missiles and let's the scarify here we're talking about mortar rockets that are being attracted over some some might say that a mortar rocket from the palestinian militants compared to your. health fire inside why the missiles from your. fighter jet so well it's quite a big difference between fireworks and bombs but the truth of the matter is that we have a situation where just today three israeli civilians were killed call the mortars call the missiles those or did civilians we have a situation where in the recent past something. people seem to of these raby children in southern israel with post-traumatic stress disorder israel was heavily criticized by a part of the world community i agree with you there i remind you and i point out that that was four years ago the lowest civilian to militant casualty rate in

history twenty nine percent of those killed were civilians and i'm not belittling the death of any civilians but far lower than any other military campaign in the last century i think that we will see something similar the start we're hoping to achieve number of things first and foremost to significantly degrade the command and control operational abilities of. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has also been talking about hating hamas what it calls surgical strikes warning of a significant widening of the operation and out he spoke to dr mohammed said bonnie has been treating the wounded and he says there are coming they are coming from residential areas not military sites. and armed civilians are under attack including women and children all the injured we are treating come to us from residential areas we are located in the intensive care unit of the clinic here in this bed as a nine month old girl with severe head injuries and life is hanging in the balance yesterday

a boy came in his only eleven months old he had burns over ninety five percent of his body he died an hour after admission these are children invaders started the war and against whom i think there launched a war against children and ordinary people because all of their patients are civilians. you can keep track of what's happening in gaza on our website and that is all the time line between the live updates on the latest with everything from eyewitness accounts from the besieged strip to official statements from both sides . though so that for you right now are a warning to ease road with threats to block the internet and gaza and they've also prepared detailed instructions for users of how to avoid a communications blackout on that story and of course full coverage of the conflict in gaza as our t.v. . but you are us has blamed the escalating violence in gaza on hamas saying its rocket attacks were destabilizing the situation and pushing peace efforts farther away but protest is took to the streets of new york and washington

with a different view they marched in support of the people in gaza who are suffering from the israeli assault. strangers were calling for a separate palestinian state and then for the violence the end why p.d.f. sounds as many as six hundred activists have gathered outside the israeli consulate in the city and this comes as washington strongly blocks the use of force against gaza saying israel has the right to defend itself correspondent explains there's been several responses on the international level most of the un's most powerful voices have called on israel's defense forces and gaza's militant groups to exercise restraint but the u.s. has remained the exception the u.s. has backed israel's decision to launch operation according to the white house president barack obama spoke with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu by phone on wednesday reiterating washington support for israel's right to defend itself after coming under rocket attacks from gaza the two reportedly agreed that

hamas needs to first stop its attacks on israel to allow the situation to deescalate obama reportedly urged netanyahu to make every effort to avoid civilian casualties now the u.s. president also delivered this message. to his egyptian counterpart mohamed morsi during a separate phone conversation that's of course according to the white house now meanwhile other major you on powers like britain and russia have issued more neutral statements calling on all sides to exercise restraint and prevent any acts of violence u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon echo those sentiments reminding all parties to respect their obligations obligations under international humanitarian law and to ensure the protection of civilians at all times the u.n. secretary general is scheduled to visit the region next week in order to advance a cease fire between israel and hamas but we should also mention that leaders the arab world are also holding israel accountable and blaming israel for this

escalation of violence so clearly the u.n. as she has a lot on his plate if he is when he attempts to to to successfully achieve a cease fire because for now this violence is clearly spiraling and escalating. stay with with the latest on the crisis in gaza and can also. tweet and of course who are closely following the story. this syrian opposition has received a major vote of confidence from the country's neighbor taking has officially recognized the national coalition alliance and the u.k. could be set to do the same so they've got more coming up later in the program for you. also find out on the rug in the british police force has hit a rock bottom with constant cuts and deceiving lines of government support leading

the fight against climate on the threat that's coming up at a very short break. things are just getting too expensive in london many families just can't afford to live in the city anymore so because of upcoming welfare cuts the government is buying or rented property to relocate people outside of the city the maximum housing allowance for welfare will go down to four hundred pounds a month which is peanuts compared to the one thousand two hundred fifty pounds needed to pay for the average three room apartment expelling the poor from london seems a bit fishy to me so instead of say regulating prices are coming for big using the money from the welfare cuts to create jobs so people can earn a living for themselves rather than rely on handouts london has decided to make

itself some official get to. what is to call a place where everyone from a certain economic class was forcibly shoved to although this may sound like some sort of help from the government it seems to me like a means to get rid of the poor rather than trying to make the poor less poor but that's just my opinion. culture is the same much different a huge musician finding the mark left again daunting a military assault would you be israelis hope to achieve this time four years ago an invasion killed over a thousand palestinian. you

know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard bargain is a big issue. do we speak your language anything about the role or not of the. news programs and documentaries and spanish matters to you. a little turn a different angle this is story. here. to try to alter the spanish find out more visit.

soon which brightened if you remove the ballots from phones to these. stunts on t.v. dot com. this is once he welcome back to back it has given syria's national coalition a major bruise by recognizing the opposition group as a legitimate representative of the country's people from those early became the first western power to officially acknowledged the alliance and is now considering supplying weapons to the rebels they syrian opposition is being from all support in london as a fetus prepared to meet with the u.k. foreign secretary britain wants to see a clear plan of political transition from deadlines and is considering official

recognition of the group the u.k. could also have a say in lifting the e.u. always in boggo in the rebel coalition german journalist and writer says take his move to help the opposition could eventually bought five games that that country's people. within the last month turkey was supporting the rebels and i don't see the syrian rebels we know that the rebels are fighting against the syrian government are coming from all over the region they are coming from because this region there are coming from are going to start from yemen we know that they are rebels coming from movie and even from sudan but that turkey is providing the infrastructure for these mercenaries are jihadists who are coming into the syrian country this politics towards syria it's a very short term politics it's the fuel short terms and if the vote disappear and if syria would be split among the lords in this country which i know supported by the west by turkey and by. emirates countries. would witness these warlords sooner

or later of taking also turkey and i think the turkish people knows that this politics is drawing against the interests of the turkish we have now it's huge demonstrations in the stumble in ankara against it specially against that form of church politics the word syria because you know that this is violating their interests. and. again whipping up a storm of controversy last night you say agencies facing flattop tate's revealed its sort of disaster relief traders on the very day sunday was upgraded by forecasters to a song. and on the website trying to take his out and throwing coffee a great protest of the band playing out of the comments by german chancellor angela merkel find out at r.t. dot com watch a sad to make them salamanca great. at least seven hundred thousand u.s. citizens have signed online petitions calling for their states to peacefully separate

from the union they are unhappy with president obama's recent re-election to the white house and activist kevin presto things talk of breaking away is gaining momentum because american society is increasingly torn apart with political and cultural defections. but question is whether the united states in its present form is sustainable for an indefinite period of time there are many people who would say no that's certainly not the case because we look at things like the fiscal the economic bankruptcy of the united states we look at its military overseas military empire and the question of military overstretch we look at the ever more divisive cultural and social and ethnic issues that are currently plaguing our society we look at the widely class divisions that we see going on this well what we see is a society that in many ways is becoming ever more divided over time along all sorts of cultural and economic and demographic lines so in most who believe that the

united states can continue in that kind of direction for an indefinite period of time it's certainly plausible to start taking a look at alternatives like succession and maybe scaling back into smaller political units of the type that some of these movements like the second republic advocate. and let's now take a look at some other stories making news around the world this hour at least of people including pakistani security personnel have been killed in a suicide blast in this southwest province of baluchistan two border patrol troops stopped a car for a routine check near the afghan border when the two men inside did an eight explosives miles has been on the rise in the province where human rights acts if it's going to stand by a spike in targeted killings. bottled former cia director david petraeus says he did not pass classified information to his biographer who he had an affair with the former journalist being investigated by the cia and claims that he quit due to the sex scandal and controversy over there sold on the u.s.

consulate in libya where she left four americans dead the tresses you to testify on capitol hill about the matter on friday. the world dry and the b.p. has agreed to plead guilty to charges in the deadly fuel spill in the gulf of mexico which faces the environment and claimed the lives of eleven people the corporation will pay a record settlement with the u.s. authorities are worth four point five billion dollars in return for the case being closed three employees face charges over the twenty ten disaster two of them for months slaughter the company will soon get the money from the state from the sale of fifty percent of ten k. b.p. to the russian oil giant ross now after. the debt crisis is predicted to drive the eurozone into its second recession since two thousand and nine according to a new survey it says a negative growth is forecast to return next year news of the economic downturn comes amid waves of protests by millions of people across europe this week

demanding the end of us diversity measures. people in england and wales have been given a choice of who they want to see the peace in their local areas they have voted for police and quantum commissioners for the first time but the new development goes hand in hand with old problems with a former london police chief warning that plummeting morale is putting the fight against climate risk no worse meth looks now at why the force no longer feels it has the government's support. another day another demo and the police all with on hand to keep control but while the boys and girls in blue do their jobs sometimes it impossible conditions the government is reducing their budgets by a massive twenty percent the net result more all in the force hits an all time low with just fifteen out of fourteen thousand officers saying they feel the government gives them a great deal of support rachel baines is surprised but not in

a good way. to see those fifteen officers are certainly in the force i work in lancashire and i don't have any officers that fill up being supported by the government really is at rock bottom baines has lost five hundred fifty officers from her force meaning more work for those left behind and a genuine fear that when people call nine nine nine there won't be anyone left to deal with the emergency and she's not alone simon pain is chair of the warrick ship police federation and says morale hasn't been this low in his twenty six year career with the have a plethora of issues over the last two years where the start or conditions of. pension reforms or were thought forms in the police. twenty percent cuts and for give an example here in work prior to this government coming to power we had a thousand and fifty offices we're now down into the seven hundreds we have one of

the biggest motorway networks in the. we have no traffic department. so it's coming from all sides times are so hard in warrick sure that the force is even selling off its stations including its h.q. there's no for sale boards up here but the iconic scotland yard headquarters of the metropolitan police is also on the markets it's a real turnaround just a year ago the met with trumpeting a three billion pound refurbish its famous revolving starting now it's downsizing to a new size of the thames nearby and replacing smaller stations with counters in supermarkets and community centers to force feels it's being disproportionately targeted but home secretary to reason may is on repentant let's stop pretending the police are being picked on they do feel picked on and critically powerless to protect

themselves as legally the police aren't allowed to strike but that could change in february. and everyone can fall off the rank of chief inspector in england wales and that very question do they want full industry rights and and the reason that is important is because our members need protecting from what they perceive is an unfair treatment by. a police force on strike it's the last thing the government needs particularly as it stares another winter of discontent in the face laura smith r.t. london. and shortly on r.t. it's cross talk with on the latest events in castle stay with us.

in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet off the. in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up for their four stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients. and their shattered lives. or when professing designed first brain. parts sixty years later he says invention is increasingly being used to help people who

are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same six thing somebody is live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the center now days seeking surgery. most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novikov who operated on many of them it usually comes down to a man's pride. the first patient to turn to us with a leg length i mean a quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want to surgery because panos tool than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven

thousand dollars about one tenth. of the similar package in the united states financial considerations for one of the reasons that broad base washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america advertised as one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty a console one eight centimeters would have brought me right to every piece i just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think a guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to his self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what

a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. and. blowing welcome across all computable again gaza is under military assault would you be israelis hope to achieve this time around four years ago an invasion killed over a thousand palestinians and destroyed much of the strips infrastructure in the end hamas remained intact and gaza still under siege what can the israelis do now that they haven't done before. and. still.